Today in History

Today is Friday, March 15, the 74th day of 2013. There are 291 days left in the year.Today's highlight:On March 15, 1913, President Woodrow Wilson met with reporters for the first formal presidential press conference.On this date:In 44 B.C., Roman dictator Julius Caesar was assassinated by a group of nobles that included Brutus and Cassius.In 1493, Christopher Columbus returned to Spain, concluding his first voyage to the Western Hemisphere.In 1767, the seventh president of the United States, Andrew Jackson, was born in Waxhaw, S.C.In 1820, Maine became the 23rd state.In 1919, members of the American Expeditionary Force from World War I convened in Paris for a three-day meeting to found the American Legion.In 1944, during World War II, Allied bombers again raided German-held Monte Cassino.In 1956, the Lerner and Loewe musical play "My Fair Lady," based on Bernard Shaw's "Pygmalion," opened on Broadway.In 1962, a chartered Flying Tiger Line airplane carrying 107 people, most of them U.S. Army personnel, disappeared while en route from Guam to the Philippines. "No Strings," Richard Rodgers' first musical following the death of longtime collaborator Oscar Hammerstein II, opened on Broadway.In 1964, actress Elizabeth Taylor married actor Richard Burton in Montreal; it was her fifth marriage, his second.In 1970, Expo '70, promoting "Progress and Harmony for Mankind," opened in Osaka, Japan.In 1972, "The Godfather," Francis Ford Coppola's epic gangster movie based on the Mario Puzo novel and starring Marlon Brando and Al Pacino, premiered in New York.In 1985, the first Internet domain name, symbolics.com, was registered by the Symbolics Computer Corp. of Massachusetts.Associated Press

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